#home before dark book

[dead-by-tbr]

Day 10: Books and Sunshine

I couldn't decide which picture to choose. Both show the beauty and hardship of reading under a gorgeous tree.

I am so thankful the weather has subsided so I can relax in the hammock during a beautiful day. It's been too emotionally difficult to read Song of Achilles. Today, I'm reading Home Before Dark by Riley Sager.

#justonemorepage #jompbpc #june2023

#books and reading #book nerd #booklr #jompbpc #justonemorepage #june2023 #currently reading #annotating books #home before dark #riley sager #break ups are hard

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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#sorry im thinking abt death again #because it's weird to think that ive been in the room. maybe a meter away from someone as they died #that someone being my mom. its just weird. the time in the hospital feels like it happened in some dark little pocket universe detached from #time. a calm room and then the soft blips of a monitor then the nurse rushing in to say she'd passed #i dont kno y ppl use that phrase: passed on. i mean i do. it softens the topic. makes it sound peaceful. ive yet to use it. i just say she #died bc thats what happened. is that insensitive? i dunno. when i was home i realized that i come off as much stranger than i think. the way #my family see me doesnt fit how i see myself. i dont kno what to do with that. i dunno. theyre all together today #for an early easter. and im halfway across the country again. nose so stuffy ive had to mouth breathe for the last 3 days #and again. everything feels the same as it did before but also profoundly different. sometimes i cry in the mornings. or when i think abt #future vacations she wont be there for. bc in the end she quickly slipped away in a way that couldn't be described as peaceful until her #last half a day. and all i can think about in that tiny room is how scary it would be to lose control like that #and how its not fair and she didnt deserve to die only halfway through a lifetime. but its not about fair and its not about deserving. #sometimes bad things just happen. that's life. and now i own a book called motherless daughters. and now im standing with the countless #others who've lost their moms too early. ive already become aware of 3 ppl in my daily life who are in the same club #i keep thinking about this moment that happened between my parents at the hospital. apparently my dad was helping her get cleaned up and her #stomach was so bloated she looked like she had a bby in there. which my dad said. and my mom apparently said: but it's a baby no one want. i #dont kno y that upsets me so much. all the things i heard abt her being in the hospital before i got there upset me. and the rest of my #family was there to see it. so i have the least traumatic version of the story. and i got almost 27 years with her. except my sisters #probably got more time with her bc i spent so much time away. or maybe not. i dunno. #i dunno. im just sad that shes gone and sad that it was drawn out even a little bit. 6 days isnt long but im sure it felt like an eternity. #again not fair. nothings fair. 53 years of unfairness culminating in a tragedy. she would hate me characterizing it like that. she lived a #full life as they say. full with an asterisk on account of length #unrelated

[deathtodickens]

these are notes i doodled while working through the storyline of this most recent gift exchange, where emily/helena ends up reuniting with myka because she recognizes their shared childhood story in a graphic novel that several of her students are reading. (by this drawing, they’d already reunited, hence helena’s very personal days). putting a pin in it because i still want it to become a different thing.

#dickens draws #bwoodles #endless wonder wives #everyday i’m bwoodlin’ #obviously an old sketch because i am in recovery mode #from not taking my allergy pills before venturing into the great outdoors #also in the as yet written story #helena teaches math or science and one day all of the kids in her glass are reading the same graphic novel #she finds out another teacher on the campus - steve maybe - assigned the book to his students to read and they are all super into it #it’s kind of a dark re-telling of the childhood of two girls who live in abusive homes but #they like to pretend that the marks and scars are actually from their imaginary adventures together #helena intrigued borrows a copy from the teacher and realizess she knows all of the stories #because they happend to her and her childhood friend myka #i didn’t really work out how to justify them not knowing why or where the other exists #other than that helena had a different name - emily lake - growing up and myka doesn’t know how to find her #but helena would know myka’s name and the only reason she wouldn’t contact her as an adult is because she couldn’t #that is why that story turned into what it did #in case you were wondering lol

[oldshrewsburyian]

Just finished this, and while I always have mixed feelings about this subgenre, I found it well-written, and found myself genuinely scared of the haunted house.

#thriller #adultbooklr #my detection obsession #riley sager #home before dark #books #book cover

[haveyoureadthispoll]

Maggie Holt is used to such questions. Twenty-five years ago, she and her parents, Ewan and Jess, moved into Baneberry Hall, a rambling Victorian estate in the Vermont woods. They spent three weeks there before fleeing in the dead of night, an ordeal Ewan later recounted in a nonfiction book called House of Horrors. His tale of ghostly happenings and encounters with malevolent spirits became a worldwide phenomenon, rivaling The Amityville Horror in popularity—and skepticism. Today, Maggie is a restorer of old homes and too young to remember any of the events mentioned in her father’s book. But she also doesn’t believe a word of it. Ghosts, after all, don’t exist. When Maggie inherits Baneberry Hall after her father’s death, she returns to renovate the place to prepare it for sale. But her homecoming is anything but warm. People from the past, chronicled in House of Horrors, lurk in the shadows. And locals aren’t thrilled that their small town has been made infamous thanks to Maggie’s father. Even more unnerving is Baneberry Hall itself—a place filled with relics from another era that hint at a history of dark deeds. As Maggie experiences strange occurrences straight out of her father’s book, she starts to believe that what he wrote was more fact than fiction.

#book: home before dark #author: riley sager #genre: horror #genre: thriller #genre: mystery #year: 2020s

[sirendeepity]

Changing my phone wallpaper/cover is a nightmare because no I don't know what I want but I know I don't want that

#lifeofdee #I've been scrolling through Pinterest for the past hour or so #and now have 3 possible aesthetic #maybe even 4 #ranging from slytherin (again) to spooky (edgy) or spooky (grunge) or even spooky (soft/cute) #WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO #but I did found one pic with a skeleton petting a black cat and that was just too cute to ignore #but do I keep it on the grunge side or the cute side #let's not forget about the season !!!! #which is not very helpful because yes it is freezing (it wasn't up until two days ago btw) but also there's not a single warm toned leave - #- in sight because everything is still on green-ish side or is not on anything at all? stop climate change I guess #but also *should* I match it with the season or should I do it more like motivational/vision board-like OR should I keep it - #- nice and aesthetic with something dark academia or writing/book related because nanowrimo? #nah scratch that I'll change it at least 3 times before October even ends #BUT ALSO DON'T FORGET THAT I DON'T USE THE SAME PICTURE FOR HOME SCREEN AND BLOCK SCREEN SO I HAVE TO FIND TWO AND THEY HAVE TO MATCH!!!! #yes I have nothing better to do with my life can you tell?

[themyscirah]

Obsessed with the idea of Xanthe accidentally folding something/summoning something with their joss paper and then it's just like welp. I guess I have a dog now

#SPIRIT WORLD ONGOING WHEN #no but that would be suchhhhhh a series like i would love it to death oh my goodness #also i want to sss this idea in like a comic or something where they accidentally summon an animal at the beginning and it goes with them #through the issue before eventually finding a home with the spirit of a little girl or something #like that would just be so cute and i would love it #NO BUT I JUST WANT MORE XANTHE ENVOY ADVENTURES!!!! LIKE FR!!!! #the fact that their mini is ending in one issue is breaking my heart actually.... #when will i see them after this.... #i mean theyd maybe get put on justice league dark if they did that again #or feature in like a constantine or zatanna book or smth #maybe get pulled into an event comic or smth #but LIKE. WHERE IS MY ONGOINGGGG #also i have no idea how they are going to wrap everything up in one issue thats just too wild to me like im worried itll seem super rushed #which like. i trust in alyssa wong's writing but uhhhh we're a bit down to the wire here aren't we #spirit world #xanthe zhou #dc comics #blah

[victoriousscarf]

Ulmo alone came not to the Trees, but went down to the beach of Eldamar, and there he stood gazing into the gloom far out to sea, and he called often with his most mighty voice as though he would draw back those truants to the bosom of the Gods, and while he played deep longing music on his magic conches, and to him alone, lest it Varda lady of the stars, was the going of the Gnomes [Noldor] a greater grief than even the ruin of the Trees. -J R R Tolkien, The Book of Lost Tales, "The Tale of the Sun and Moon."

#things i expected while reading the book of lost tales #not this!!! #all the tolkien feels #ulmo coming out of nowhere to bitch slap me with grieving more for the noldor than the trees themselves #him standing in the ocean foam trying to sing them home #darkness before him and darkness behind with only torchlight and the stars in all the world #finrod does not yet exist in the narrative and turgon isn't born yet according to it #and still ulmo stands there and calls into the sea #this history of middle-earth #jrr tolkien

[fallenangellinwonderland]

When I want to talk or text my fictional boyfriend that's when I know I'm way too deep...you know?

#Like I want to sit on the couch with him and tell him about this book I'm reading #Or ask him about his day #And cuddle #Now I feel like crying! #That's terrible #I'll be fine tho #Sherlock Holmes #Bbc Sherlock #Fictional boyfriend #Fictional #Fiction #Home before dark #Reader #Books #Bookworm #bookaholic #book couple

[sunsoaked-living-blog]

Ik it’s probably bc of my personal faith and cultural background… but if my realtor had to take a deep, calming breath, and then DID THE SIGN OF THE CROSS before showing me a house they want me to buy, ain’t no way I’m setting foot in there. Nope. Absolutely not. Hard pass times 10000000.

Don’t you EVA take me to no damn haunted house. If I wanted to do that, I’d go to Halloween Horror Nights. Do not ever play in my face like that.

Simply cannot relate to the Holt family wanting to buy a house like that.

But good luck to y’all tho🤪

#home before dark #riley sager #horror books #i just started #and I could not help but burst out laughing at the realtor #miss girl was doing her best to rid herself of this listing #while doing the bare minimum to make it seem like a suitable house #I’m so serious that I would not step foot in that house if my realtor was #bffr #ain’t gon catch me with no ghost roomies

[daisysjones]

i’m itching to read a physical book i need the feel of a book in my hands

#i love my kobo but sometimes its not the same #hopefully the dark descent of elizabeth frankenstein will last me until i get home and then i can start wor #working through the books i have on my bookshelf #and maybe read sense and sensibility before i start work #abby.txt

[dead-by-tbr]

Home Before Dark by Riley Sager.

Black tabs are 'House or Horrors' chapters, and green tabs are present Maggie chapters.

I spoiled myself hard-core to the biggest plot-twist in this book doing this😭 But it's so pretty 😍

#books and reading #home library #Home Before Dark #riley sager #spoiled #aesthetic #annotating books #annotated books #book nerd #booklr

[sluttyten]

yay! glad you finally got your nose pierced AND got nct dream tickets!

Yeah!! It’s very exciting! I made sure I had the tickets before I mentioned the septum piercing to my parents because I didn’t want my mom to revoke her offer of going to the concert with me 😂 but earlier I told her I might want to bleach and dye my hair before the concert and she didn’t like the idea of that

#asks #but also the hairstylist I went to my whole life retired a couple years ago #and I’ve only gotten my hair cut once since then and now that girl is booked and busy and probably couldn’t squeeze me in any time in the #next month so MAYBE if I really want it I could ask the guy I got my nose pierced with if his friend who does his hair could do mine #but I think they’re still in beauty school? unless I misunderstood that and no offense but I don’t want anyone in beauty school to do my hai #hair* because my hair’s long and dark and if they don’t know what they’re doing it would totally fry my hair off and I would want to off #myself in that situation #but I wanna do the iconic renjun hair #like I attempted before but I did it at home and it wasn’t great #so I want a hair professional to do it but I’m gonna keep it long though chopping it off isn’t the worst option #I just love having long hair

[authoravalonroselin]

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[jayleecomics]

Heres my comic cover for yall go read my comic on webtoon tapas or insta rn

#webtoon #comics #comic artist #comic books #comic covers #home before dark #webtoon canvas

[aloofanna]

Waiting for my daughter...

Czekając na córkę...

#books #horror #kryminał #thriller #riley sager #home before dark #wróć przed zmrokiem #cafe #sernik #herbata #kawiarnia #cheese cake #tea